AT Help Tips:
Windows XP Display Settings

More efficient access with AT programs using a keyboard-based approach

FREEDOM SCIENTIFIC WEBSITE, FOR JAWS USERS

http://www.atto.buffalo.edu/registered/ATBasics/AdaptingComputers/SimpleModifications/system.php

This AT Help Tips page is adapted from Freedom Scientific and with suggestions from ACBVI. Inc. staff for the
ATArizona website.

Display Properties

1. From the Control Panel, move to "Display" and press Enter.

2. From the themes combo box, select Windows XP.

3. In the list of backgrounds on the Desktop page, choose Bliss.

4. Set position to "Stretch."

5. In the Screen Saver combo box on the Screen Saver page, press HOME to select none.

6. On the Appearance page, set Windows and Buttons to Windows classic style.

7. Set Color Scheme to Windows Standard.

8. Set Font to normal.

9. Press ALT+E to enter into "Effects"

• TAB to move between each check box and press SPACEBAR to uncheck all in this dialog box.

• Press ENTER close this dialog box.

• Press ENTER again to return to main Control Panel.

Note:
After making these changes, the Display page Themes combo box

says "Modified Theme."

Folder Options

1. From the Control Panel, press ALT+T to go to the Tools menu.

2. Press O for Folder Options.

3. From the Tasks radio button group, select Use Windows Classic folders.

4. (Optional):

• On the View page, move to the Advanced Settings tree view.

• Clear the Hide Extensions For Known File Types check box.

• If you also use screen magnification software, clear the Show pop-up description for folder and desktop items check box.

Pop up descriptions often hides the menu item just below any given menu item, making it impossible to visually see the next item in the menu list.

• Move to the Apply to All Folders button and press SPACEBAR.

• Select Yes in the dialog that opens to acknowledge this change.

Move to the OK button in the Folder Options dialog box and press SPACEBAR to close this dialog box.

Start Menu

1. From the Start Menu, move to settings and press ENTER, move to Taskbar and Start Menu and then ENTER.

2. If not on the Taskbar page, CONTROL+TAB to it and press ALT+G to move to and uncheck Group Similar Taskbar Buttons.

3. Press ALT+H to move to and uncheck the check box for Hide inactive icons.

4. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Start Menu page.

5. Select Classic start menu.

6. Press ENTER to close this dialog box.

Windows Explorer

1. Press WINDOWS KEY+E to open Windows Explorer.

2. Press ALT+V to open the View menu.

3. Select "Arrange Icons by" and press ENTER to open the submenu.

4. Move to the menu item "Name" or "Details" to arrange by Name or Details, and Press ENTER to select either option and close the menus.

5. Repeat steps 2 and 3, and move to the item "Show in Groups". If it is checked, press ENTER to uncheck it and close the menus.

6. Press ALT+T to open the Tools menu.

7. Press O to open the Folder Options Dialog.

8. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the View page.

9. Press SPACEBAR to activate the "Apply to all folders" button, and press SPACEBAR on the YES button to acknowledge this change.

Move to the OK button and press SPACEBAR to close this dialog box.

System Performance

1. From the Control Panel, move to System and press ENTER to open the System Properties Dialog.

2. Press CTRL+TAB to move to the Advanced page.

3. Press ALT+S to activate the Performance Settings button. The Performance Options Dialog opens.

4. Clear the following check boxes:
   Animate Windows when Minimizing and Maximizing
   Slide open Combo Boxes
   Smooth-scroll List Boxes
   Use Visual Styles on Windows and Buttons

5. Press ENTER to close the Performance Options dialog and return to the System Properties dialog box.

6. Press ENTER to activate the OK button and close the System Properties dialog box.